Music files
CPDL #16022: 
LilyPond
- Editor: Peter Kaplan (added 2008-02-15). Score information: Letter, 1 page, 192 kbytes Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: Transcribed via dictation from Aventure recording (2007), with additional 4th verse added from traditional 4-verse text.
General Information
Title: Jesu, Dulcis Memoria
Composer: Anonymous
Number of voices: 2vv Voicing: BB
, homophonic
Genre: Sacred, Motet
Language: Latin
Instruments: a cappella
Published: Koning Manuscript, c.1500
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Original text and translations
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 Latin text
- Jesu dulcis memoria
- Dans vera cordis gaudia:
- Sed super mel et omnia
- Ejus dulcis præsentia.
- Nil canitur suavius,
- Nil auditur jucundius
- Nil cogitatur dulcius
- Quam Jesus Dei filius.
- Jesu spes pænitentibus,
- Quam pius es petentibus!
- Quam bonus te quærentibus!
- Sed quid invenientibus?
- Nec lingua valet dicere,
- Nec littera exprimere:
- Expertus potest credere,
- Quid sit Jesum diligere.
- Sis Jesu nostrum gaudium
- Qui es futurus præmium
- Sit nostra in te gloria
- Per cuncta semper sæcula.
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 English translation
by Mick Swithinbank and Jamie Reid Baxter.
- Jesus, sweet remembrance,
- Granting the heart its true joys,
- But above honey and all things
- Is His sweet presence.
- Nothing more pleasing can be sung,
- Nothing gladder can be heard
- Nothing sweeter can be thought
- Than Jesus, son of God.
- Jesus, hope of the penitent,
- How merciful you are to those who ask,
- How good to those who seek,
- But O, what you are to those who find!
- Tongue has no power to describe
- Nor writings to express
- But only belief can know by experience
- What it is to love Jesus.
- Be our joy, O Jesus,
- Who will be the prize we win,
- May all our glory be in you, always
- And through all ages.
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